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  • Indigo House Farmstead Dinners on the Porch
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  • Cooking Mary Randolph
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  • Support Indigo House
  • My first book! The Gen-Xers, Millennials & Hipster Guide: . . . . . Sharing a Kitchen with Housemates

    http://blur.by/1DfRRIz Follow this link to purchase my book in softcover or PDF online.

  • Taking care of ourselves and each other: Self-reliance, sustainibility, and Andrew Zolli

      Around about Thanksgiving is pretty much when I close up the summer and early fall making/doing/storing food bustle. I’m getting ready to hunker down; you’d think I was a squirrel. South Dakota winters have a way of sticking in…

  • In Which Leni Journeys Through the Seasons with The Virginia House-wife: January

    Over the next while I am going to continue to explore my fascination with the Mary Randolph’s cookbook.  When we read her recipes we get a glimpse into the skills and daily cooking styles practiced by African American cooks/chefs in…

  • The continuing conversation about the ‘food desert’

    Further thoughts re the generous and thoughtful responses to my ‘food desert’ post. I do very much understand that individuals have little/no control over headers, headlines, or photos used in media. As a performer for many years I became used…

  • Rejecting the ‘food desert’ concept

    In response to FLAVOR MAGAZINE, June/July 2009 article titled Not Quite What I Was Looking For under the page header 'in the food desert."  Paul Ryan's description of his personal journey from home gardener to community gardener was timely.  It was…

  • More on McWilliams

    James E. McWilliams      Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly.   Little, Brown 2009. With the emphasis on ‘just’ McWilliams asks all Americans concerned with issues of food production to look…

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Dr. Leni Sorensen Phd

I cook, I teach, I garden, I feed animals. I write, I research, I lecture, I demonstrate. My passion is emphatically about food; food in early America, food in contemporary America, food among the urban poor, food from small sustainable farms, food cooked by novices, food cooked by chefs.

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